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{{newreview<!-- Fowler -->*[[image:Fowler_Forgotten.jpg|authorleft|link=Christopher Fowlerhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1786484897?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1786484897]] |title===[[The Book of Forgotten Authorsby Christopher Fowler]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating=5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:GENRE|GENRE]]|genre=Reference|summary=''Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder''. It makes people think you're dead. There's truth in that statement, you know, but there's a conundrum when it' s applied to authors. Shakespeare is dead: Dickens is dead, but we haven't buried what they've written: that lives on until... when? Is it until fashion decrees that they should be no more? Or is it, as in the case of some children's authors that they are on life support through licensing deals and astute marketing? Christopher Fowler has unearthed (exhumed?) ninety nine authors who were once hugely popular, but whose works have disappeared, sometimes quite literally. [[The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler|Full Review]]<br>
There's truth in that statement, you know, but there's a conundrum when it's applied to authors. Shakespeare is dead: Dickens is dead, but we haven't buried what they've written: that lives on until... when? Is it until fashion decrees that they should be no more? Or is it, as in the case of some children's authors that they are on life support through licensing deals and astute marketing? Christopher Fowler has unearthed (exhumed?) ninety nine authors who were once hugely popular, but whose works have disappeared, sometimes quite literally.
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